Isaak Yaglom

Isaac Moissejewitsch Jaglom (Russian Иссак Моисеевич Яглом, english Isaac Yaglom, born March 6, 1921 in Kharkiv, † 17 May 1988 in Moscow) was a Russian mathematician.

Jaglom studied from 1938 at the Moscow State University, where he received his doctorate in 1945 with Boris Delone and Veniamin Kagan with a thesis on geometry. During World War II he was postponed due to shortsightedness and moved in with his family in Sverdlovsk, where he studied and graduated in 1942 made ​​( after which he studied at the Moscow State University evacuated there ). In 1946 he was a lecturer at the Moscow Energy Institute and thereafter until 1949 at the Moscow State University and from 1949 to 1956 at the Pedagogical Institute Orechowo - Zuyevo. From 1956 he was at the State Pedagogical Lenin Institute. During this time he completed his habilitation in 1965 ( Russian doctorate degrees). From 1968 he was professor at the night school of the Moscow Metallurgical Institute. 1974 to 1983 he was a professor at the State University Yaroslavl. 1984 to 1988 he was a consultant at the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences.

Jaglom dealt with algebra and geometry and is the author of a number of popular science books on mathematics. In total, he wrote over 40 books.

He is the twin brother of the mathematician and physicist Akiva Jaglom.

Writings

  • Felix Klein and Sophus Lie - the evolution of the idea of symmetry in the 19th century, Birkhauser 1985
  • With Akiva Jaglom probability and information, Berlin, German publisher of Sciences, 4th Edition 1984 (English: Probability and Information, Reidel, 1983, Russian First 1956)
  • A simple non- Euclidean geometry and its physical basis: an elementary account of Galilean geometry and the Galilean principle of relativity, Springer 1979
  • Geometric Transformations, 3 volumes, Random House, 1962, 1968, 1973 ( first Russian in two volumes, 1955, 1956 )
  • Complex numbers in geometry, Academic Press 1968
  • Mathematical structures and mathematical modeling, Gordon and Breach 1986
  • With Golovina: Mathematical induction in geometry, Berlin, German Academic Publishers, 1973
  • With Vladimir Boltjanski Convex figures, Berlin, German Academic Publishers 1956
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